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@DostoyevskysShamblingCorpse said:

Lol, iPhone gaming. This is a stretch.

Mobile gaming is the right kind of casual gaming (instead of farmville and the likes on facebook)

Here are a few games on my phones that are pretty fun and offer some real depth:

• Dungeon Raid (Jeff approved)
• Game Dev Story (pretty much all GB crew approves)
• Zombie Minesweeper (You're running away from zombies in a field full of mines)
• Sword and Sworcery (Patrick loves this game)
• Scribblenauts
• Phoenix Wright
• Ghost Trick
• Beat Sneak Bandit
• Board games: Dominion, Ascension
• Puzzlejuice
• Squids Wild West
• 10 000 000 (Jeff approved also)
• Puzzle Craft (dungeon raid + sim city)
• Infinity Blade 1 and 2
• The old Lucasart Monkey Island games

and lastly, not really a game, but a game-fied running/tracking app like nike+: Zombie, Run! (You run in real life, to play the zombie survival game. Patrick talked about it on the Bombcast)

@thefriend said:

>2012

>Still buying Apple products

What areyouahipster.exe?

Seriously, with the android out, why would anyone still get an iPhone? Maybe provider is an excuse, but I doubt it. L2Phone people.

Apps. Majority of the new apps/games come out on the iphone first. Also, people that bought iphones before are staying on it because of apps that they bought and cannot transfer to other platforms. And if you don't value apps... then really there's no difference in owning an iphone or an android phone, basic functions are well covered in both platforms.

And by this time, so many people have bought an iphone, it's not a hipster thing anymore (when your mom or dad owns one). Owners of high-end android phones (Galaxy s3, nexus phone) are the new hipsters.

Nothing Giantbomb specific, but here are some of mine:

white cards:

Vial of orphan tears

Tissue paper next to a pc

A teenager's mouse and keyboard

Pretending to walk around normally with chaffed balls

Explaining the smell you've got on your fingers

@zaglis said:

God. It is such a bloody downgrade from the regular UI. The store, library and community in big picture mode is extremely limited (dumbed down wouldn't even be the right word here). But hey, smart thing for Valve to chase after console poeple, this is the perfect time to do so.

Different point of views. I would not use the big picture mode on my PC monitor at my desk. But I wouldn't use the normal view either on a living room TV. Big picture mode is perfect for the TV.

The keyboard layout with the controller seems really well designed. I think I might have seen this somewhere before. Is that new?

@Deusoma said:

@Oi_Blimey said:

@Shivoa said:

I'm glad to see so many rich people talking about how little $100 means to them. I'm sure that they speak having lived on the typical wages in many areas of the world far from their current decadent existence and so are able to be so authoritative on how small change that value is for everyone.

If you're not "rich" enough to get $100, then you probably don't have the equipment/facilities to help you in making a pc game. If people in your part of the world can afford a pc or laptop to make their game, $100 is not too much to ask.

And in the case of the argument that they borrowed the pc for making the game... well borrow the $100... if the game is not going to make the $100 back, then it really is a waste of time for everyone involved.

And what if it's a high-quality game that the creator wishes to give away for free, hmmm? There are plenty of free-to-play games on Steam. Charging money to give a game away seems an altogether different proposition.

What do you need Steam for when you want to give the game away for free? The goal going into the Greenlight program is to sell your game. Not give it for free. You can give it out for free somewhere else. If you need Steam to advertise your free game, then $100 is a really cheap advertisement fee. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to promote a game?

@Shivoa said:

I'm glad to see so many rich people talking about how little $100 means to them. I'm sure that they speak having lived on the typical wages in many areas of the world far from their current decadent existence and so are able to be so authoritative on how small change that value is for everyone.

If you're not "rich" enough to get $100, then you probably don't have the equipment/facilities to help you in making a pc game. If people in your part of the world can afford a pc or laptop to make their game, $100 is not too much to ask.

And in the case of the argument that they borrowed the pc for making the game... well borrow the $100... if the game is not going to make the $100 back, then it really is a waste of time for everyone involved.

People that are avoiding this game because it looks too "furry" are so insecure. That your mind went straight to animal sex just shows how dirty and messed up you are. The game is rated 10+ for everyone, there's no sex in it. The recent Sonic the hedgehog games are more sexualized then this.

What did I just read? And I mean it not in a good way.